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editorials

Here We Remain

Touchstone & the "Devout" Friends of Abortion
by S. M. Hutchens

quodlibet

Keep It Going

by James M. Kushiner

The Greatest of Sinners

by S. M. Hutchens

The Middle Man

by Donald T. Williams

Defensive Choices

by J. Douglas Johnson

Castrate, Then Bid Them Be Fruitful

by S. M. Hutchens

Pastoral Lust

by S. M. Hutchens

The Big House

by Donald T. Williams

On Not "Loving" God

by S. M. Hutchens

Humble Morality

by S. M. Hutchens

Tax & Destroy

by S. M. Hutchens

A Fair Loss

by S. M. Hutchens

communiqué

Fetal Repositioning

Recent Pro-life Legal Victories in Europe
by John D. Martin

columns

As It Is Written...

Loving Others: Two Formulas

by Patrick Henry Reardon

A Thousand Words

The Colossus of Constantine

by Mary Elizabeth Podles

Mortal Remains

Church Cleaning

by S. M. Hutchens

From Heavenly Harmony

The Orpheus of Amsterdam

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

by Ken Myers

Illuminations

The Ring & the Gem

"Come Unto Me, Ye Weary" by William Chatterton Dix

by Anthony Esolen

34.4—July/August 2021

features

Our Suffering, Our Solace

Dante's Way of Boundless Love
by Anthony Esolen

By What Authority?

The Failure of Liberal Public Reason & How to Respond
by Douglas Farrow

Grateful for Dante

How the Great-Souled Tuscan Saved My Life
by Rod Dreher

The Complete Apologist

Four Essentials Every Christian Is Called to Embrace
by Donald T. Williams

views

Good News Once More

R. V. Young on an Impregnable Darkness That Opens a Door

The Old Testaments

Patrick Henry Reardon on the Canonicity of the Greek & Hebrew Texts

Braking Badly

J. Douglas Johnson on Conservatism's Partnership with Godless Liberalism

False Identity

S. M. Hutchens on the Gay-but-Celibate Notion

book reviews

To Strut & Fret an Hour Upon the Stage

The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution by Carl R. Trueman
reviewed by Anthony Esolen

Splendid Uselessness

Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life by Zena Hitz
reviewed by Thomas Albert Howard

commonplaces

NEW: Piquant excerpts lifted from Touchstone editors' own reading & listening.

departments

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